Re-igniting Your Passion

We can make amazing life comebacks, no matter what.  My client and friend David did just that in 2011.

Throughout 2009 and 2010, David struggled to keep his “till death do us part” marriage vow in place, to maintain a healthy and happy relationship with his three-year-old daughter, to retain his VP Position in a major international alternative energy corporation, and to keep his mind, body and soul together in the throes of major mid-life stressors.

Don’t you think that these days, making it through ages 30-45, is harder than making it through adolescence? Relationship, career and financial stressors are enormous. Getting through these years requires valor, strength of mind and spirit in the face of danger.  One confronts the risks of losing relationships (e.g. parents, children, friends, significant others), a job, a home, one’s physical and mental health, and the faith and belief that life is indeed good.

Survival takes the willingness to put one’s own happiness first, to believe in oneself no matter what, to regroup, to regain one’s passion for life, and to design and commit to a new life plan.  Of course, one also needs to be mindful not to create  suffering in the players in one’s story, while at the same time avoiding the temptation to become co-dependent.

David made the painful decision to file for divorce and then to design a life plan that beautifully restored his sense of self, his passion for life. The plan included co-parenting his daughter, who remains in the same neighborhood and goes to the same neighborhood school. He is able to walk her to school in the morning, and she spends half of her time with him. They joined the YMCA Adventure Princess Program, and with 150 dads and their daughters, go on a monthly camping expedition. He hired an au pair to ease his stressful world of being an all-in-one Dad/Mom/Driver/Homemaker/Babysitter.

David felt that he needed a new work challenge to jumpstart a new beginning for himself.  He changed companies to his career advantage.  Before he started his new job, he went to Australia to scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef on a catamaran.  He completed his training as a licensed sailor.  In his words, “Overall, I’d say that, while I am not exactly where I thought I would be at this point in my life, I am thrilled to be unstuck at last and moving in the right direction.  The only way out is through it.”

My responsibility to people like David, is to provide the mentoring support which my clients need when they are wrestling with major life transitions, e.g. divorce, career change, reinvention, renewal and recovery.

As a life coach, I guide my clients through a process of soul-searching to restore faith in oneself and to develop and commit to a new plan for career, relationships and self-care.  All it takes is a plan and a conscious choice to be happy again by re-igniting one’s passion for living.  How can I help you?